Eclogues

Virgil

Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.

  1. Cease, boy, and get we to the work in hand:
  2. we shall sing better when himself is come.
  1. This now, the very latest of my toils,
  2. vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
  3. sing a brief song to Gallus—brief, but yet
  4. such as Lycoris' self may fitly read.
  5. Who would not sing for Gallus? So, when thou
  6. beneath Sicanian billows glidest on,
  7. may Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,